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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
2
A brief listing notes the work Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon with copyright held by Dodd Mead and Company Inc
Barnes learns of a loan offer from Rushcroft while Miss Thackeray becomes a paying guest. Rushcroft plans a Broadway comeback with a four act drama, and Barnes eyeing a possible profit, secures a debt with a personal note. Barnes investigates Green Fancy, probed by suspicions about a mysterious woman and a hidden locale.
Wealthy New Yorker Thomas K. Barnes travels toward the Canadian border where a girl gives him a map to Green Fancy a house of mystery. At Hart’s tavern a troupe led by Lyndon Rushcroft and Miss Thackeray occupies rooms for meals. Two mounted men depart under strange signs one is shot the other captured. Sheriff detains Barnes as Green Fancy guests insist the affair does not involve their residence.
In a tense exchange, De Sota, O'Dowd, and Barnes discuss a missing guest. A woman claimed to head to Green Fancy but no guest arrived, and the driver—a small, elderly man in a Panhard—was barely seen at night. The trio ponders the added female mystery and looming danger.
In the Wildwood Fellows chapter a furious Rushcroft berates others after a double murder, boasting of a full stomach versus conscience. He accepts lunch at twelve thirty and hints at a proposed arrangement involving Miss Thackeray and his host Barnes.
Longfellow dominates praise as the widely loved poet of American sentiment. His works span lyrical pieces and narratives like Hyperion and Kavanagh, with enduring favorites such as Psalm of Life Hiawatha Evangeline and The Village Blacksmith shaping schoolboy familiarity and patriotic verse.
The text traces the kettledrum from ancient Greek and Egyptian dances to its wartime adoption in seventh century Europe. It notes Moorish and Saracen influence in Spain, via Hindu and Persian trade routes, with the Persian term tabir linked to the drum.
A discussion notes a proposed rule against landlords denying rentals to couples with children. Acknowledge it as a landmark idea but doubt its effectiveness, citing the absence of enforceable laws to curb high rents and housing discrimination. The Birmingham Age-Herald commentary frames the issue as an enlightened community debate.
The notice targets women and promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues. It claims many ailments stem from kidney problems and offers a 10 cent sample bottle by mail from Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York.
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